Example sentences of "have in " in BNC.

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1 I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television .
2 I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television .
3 He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind .
4 The explanation of the kind of art shown in this exhibition may be sought in the deep-seated and persistent interest which human beings have in the fantastic , the irrational , the spontaneous , the marvellous , the enigmatic , and the dreamlike .
5 Of the stories I have in mind , Othello and Desdemona , Samson and Delilah , Dido and Aeneas , only the third is spoken of , and it is spoken of oracularly .
6 But it can scarcely be in doubt that these books have in them home truths , and an ironic obliquity or duplicity , which richly relate to the world of Jaruzelski 's predecessors , and indeed to the experience of other countries where literature and opinion have been repressed .
7 This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life .
8 What they have in common is that each escapes ‘ the limitations of the personal ’ .
9 I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved .
10 ‘ What role does your member of staff have in all this ? ’
11 I would now like to pursue the resemblance by claiming that blocks as such ( i.e. techniques which are solely performed to deflect attacking techniques ) , have no more place in karate competition than they have in boxing .
12 What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera .
13 In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities .
14 The head , body and arms of the characters portrayed should show the status they have in the society to which they belong whether it is rural , urban or fantastic , as well as their behaviour , customs , work or play .
15 The reason for this is that there are now two ways of getting your council 's blessing to proceed with the work you have in mind .
16 I have in mind the experience of being suddenly thrust outside time , which constitutes in The Idiot and elsewhere the epileptic aura .
17 In the book we have in front of us — and it is a long one — he never does .
18 Such people have in the past been left to go their own way without interference .
19 Yet within the context of organized literary study , it is true that much of the difficulty students have in making sense of texts comes from a lack of information , or to use the older term , a deficiency in general knowledge .
20 The other model I have in mind is the degree in music , which is intensive , technical , and demanding , and attracts a small number of well-qualified entrants .
21 I have in mind How To Read , a disastrously misnamed little treatise , since its real subject is How to Write , and it is addressed to what Pound called ( with the engagingly dated Edwardian elegance that he never wholly shed ) ‘ the neophyte ’ — that is to say , to the young American writer who wants to know as soon as possible , though at the expense of considerable exertion which he is prepared for , how to assemble his kit of tools for the job in hand and others that he can dimly foresee .
22 As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment …
23 Ask yourself what these three poets in your experience of them have in common , and in answering that you will get near to the quality I am trying to isolate . ’
24 We have in English a certain gamut of styles : we have the good Chaucerian ; almost the only style in English where ‘ softness ’ is tolerable ; we have the good Elizabethan ; … and the bad , or muzzy , Elizabethan ; and the Miltonic , which is a bombastic and rhetorical Elizabethan coming from an attempt to write English with Latin syntax .
25 And if Pound so blithely overlooks that difference , does n't that mean that we have in him a critic who attends to form , to style , at the expense of what that form and that style are used so as to convey ?
26 What all three things have in common is that they were caused by autumn .
27 The ‘ expellees ’ have in any case ‘ isolated themselves ’ from East German society , they are ‘ mindless strays ’ , many of them are ‘ antisocial ’ and the country is better off without them .
28 I have in my memory a feeling that we had satisfied ourselves that international law would be obeyed . ’
29 To say that ‘ if all you have in life is bad choices , crack may not be the most unpleasant of them is irresponsible to an astonishing degree ’ .
30 The move is unprecedented : a substantial number of security force members have in the past been charged and convicted of terrorist-type offences , but never before has such a number been picked up for questioning at one time .
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